How Can I Overcome My Own Body Shame? With Amanda Levitt

Amanda Levitt is an activist and scholar working to dismantle
fatphobia and highlight the ways fat stigma shows up in society.
Central to her work is exposing how racism and capitalism
generate conditions that shame fat people about their bodies.
Amanda tells Claire how the rise of social media has made body
shame inescapable in society, how finding a supportive community
helped her combat the body shaming she’s experienced throughout
her life, and what we can do to challenge the societal norms that
lead to body shaming in the first place. 


 


Resources from the show


 


Listen to Fat Theory Book Club, a podcast hosted by scholar
and activist Amanda Levitt.

Read Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia
by Sabrina Strings

Read Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the
Body by Susan Bordo

Read This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things: Mapping the
Relationship Between Online Trolling and Mainstream Culture by
Whitney Phillips



 


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